 Furthermore, some of the ex-spies on the list weren't just ex-spies, like Michael Morell, who was on active contract with the CIA at the time that he signed that letter. And after that letter came out, we now know for a fact CIA employees internally expressed concern that this would compromise the agency, that this was an improper interference by the CIA into the political process, and that it would not be, quote, helpful to the agency in the long run. Okay, we already knew this